I woke up the next morning feeling like someone had beaten me up and every muscle hurt from yesterday's thing with Vera and I tried to sit up but my head spun so I lay back down.

Penelope walked in without knocking and said "You look like crap" and I said "Thanks so much" and she laughed and gave me water and some pills.

"For your head," she said "The elders said using the Shard yesterday probably wiped you out more than you thought" and I took the pills and said "I feel awful."

"Yeah well ...